The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-03-10
The papers of the. State expressed

ment of Gen. Finley as Senator ad in
terim.
The Waldo advertiser says ship
ments of strawberries are just twenty
nine days in advance of the first of last
season."
The Jacksonville gun club was van
pushed by the Monticello club on the
4th. The score made was: Monticello,
Ill; Jacksonville, 100.
Senator Finley received many warm
tokens of friendship and congratulations
from his numerous friends and admirers
yesterday.-OcdIa Free Press, Sd.
Col. HI. L. Crane has retired from
the Key West Key Of the Gulf, and is
succeeded by Mr.. George Eugene Bryson
as editor and Mr.. Ben. D. jerks as pub
Usher.
The Pensacola Semi Weekly I'D
vGnce- Gazette is edited with much ability,
and conducted with great energy and
enterprise 1t is strong and influential
journal.
The trial of Bogue Selph, at Live
Oak, on the charge of numbering w. NJ.
Kirkland, resulted in his acquittal last
Thursday. The jury brought in a verdict
of not guilty after being out two hours
MIR. Varnum, of the Jacksonville
Daily Ne,cs, has gone to New York to
purchase an entirely new outfit for his
paper. He will buy presses, folders, en-
gines, &c, and make the Ne,os outfit
complete in all respects Orlando Re
porter.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher died at
his home in Brooklyn, at halfpast nine
o'clock last Tuesday morning. The great
preacher was a native of Litchfeld, Con-
necticut, was nearly IA years of age, and
had been pastor of Plymouth church for
about forty years.
-Chas. H. Webb, Esq, has sold the
De Leon Springs Courier to Messrs. T.
w. Bailey and ]. l. Alexander, and we
wish them success. Mr.. Webb still owns
newspaper property, however, in the De-
Land Chronicle, and his ability will con-
stantly add to its value.
The Waldo Advertiser suggests the
appointment of Capt. d. E. Maxwell, Of
the F. K. & N, as one of the commission
ers of railroads under the interstate
commerce bill. President Cleveland
could go farther and do much worse than
to appoint him.LLake Butler Times.
-Gadsden must be dubbed the "Cava-
lier County," for her knight, Thomas M.
Scott, of Scotland, bore off the honors at
Brooksville, capturing the "Hernando
Banner" and the first prize of the
tourney, even as DIR. Gee, of Quincy,
triumphed in the Interstate tournament at
the Worlds Exposition in New Orleans.
The colored State Fair will open at
Jacksonville on Tuesday, 18th inst, and
will doubtless be great success, as the
affairs of the association have been con-
Quoted with much energy. A long list
Of premiums is printed in the Peoples
Journal, and, SO far as we know, Editor
Thompson, of that paper, has been mainly
instrumental in getting up the Fair.
AT the special election held in La
fayette county on the lst instant, to
choose Representative in place of Mr..
F. M. Cottrell, deceased, Hon. Thomas
S. Goodbread, democrat, received ma
jority of the votes polled. Mr.. Good
bread has been in the Legislature before
and experience is thus added to his
qualifications.
The Monticello Constitution and the
Baker County Sentinel are strongly
urging the re-appointment of Hon. David
S. Walker as Judge Of the Second Circuit
We cordially endorse their action. A
better re-appolntment cannot be made.
A man Of unblemished character, good
lawyer, inst judge, an upright citizen,
Florida has no worthier son.-Jackso,a-
vile Critique.
Col. 6. A. Hanson has sold the Bar.
tow Informant to Messrs. Joseph Ses-
sions, Z. B. Barker and A. c. Fitzpatrick,
who will continue the publication of that
valuable journal. Mr.. Sessions is an able
writer, and is the law partner Of Col.
Hanson, and we are pleased to learn that
the vigorous pen of the latter will not be
entirely withdrawn from the editorial
columns of the paper.
We are glad to know that Judge
Spear, trustee for A. M. Hyer, will soon
be able to make good the deficit of that
officer. The trustee is confident that the
property in his hands will bring $50, 500,
and as the default was made for 81, 900
the people should lose nothing. This is
the reverse of the usual course, and on it
we congratulate the Orlando Reporter,
Orange county and Judge Spear.-Ralat-
ka Necs
Editors become somewhat hardened
to printers errors which even pervert
their meaning, but we really must correct
one that occurred in our Last issue. We
wrote the marked features of the pres
emit administration of Florida have been
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